A few new names in the CAX1 but most are known to us. Good to see Will Bosisto getting a run. Surprised he is not the skipper. Tassie quick Gabe Bell has been impressive this season. Josh Philippe is an exciting prospect while Alex Bevilaqua is another off the Dennis Lillee Academy production line.

Several interesting additions for England tho most are from the England Lions. Looking forward to seeing how Tom Curran goes.. some big wraps on him. After going 2-0 down in the Ashes would have notioned England needed all the match time it could get.

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So what do England change for the 3rd Test? Cook is averaging 15.5, Vince 25.5, & Moeen nearly 100 with the ball. Tom Curran had a good day today against CA, would he be something different? Should Hales come in? I feel we must change something but no idea exactly what.

Curran I think is in the pipe line for a try but perhaps not yet. They won't ever drop Cook he's too colossal a player in general even if going through an average patch. Hales might like the Aussie pitches for does he have the technique long term?

Shambles wrote:So what do England change for the 3rd Test? Cook is averaging 15.5, Vince 25.5, & Moeen nearly 100 with the ball. Tom Curran had a good day today against CA, would he be something different? Should Hales come in? I feel we must change something but no idea exactly what.

Is Cook on the way to having to do the same thing Denness done in 74-75 and Gooch in 89, so badly out of form they ended up dropping themselves.

Personally I think Cook needs to change things. He just seems to be doing the same as he did 7 years ago only nowhere near as well. Has his game evolved positively? Surprised we havent used him at 3 or 5. Why not? If he's only going to average 15 then plenty of other openers can do that., & plenty have come & gone while he survives. Hope for him he scores heavily at the WACA.

The one positive about cook is that he can see the shine off better than many others and he has still managed to do that a few times this year even if he’s then gotten out for 35. I can’t help but think that others would just collapse and we’d be 45/4 off thirteen rather than 45/2 off twenty and the ball and bit more malleable.

But I agree he is otherwise not making much at the top. To be honest no one is making runs for England at the moment.

But can you ever remember Cook setting the world alight? He is at the most a 75 heart beats per minute kind of guy. Even with his 765 runs or whatever in 2010/11 I can’t rememebr any of the shots.....